Connecticut western news., 1887-04-20
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.
Local News.


 Jessie Drum is clerking at Fuller & Peet's.
 Read advertisement of nurse and sesmstress.
 Read NJ. Callahan's adv. of place for sale or rent. Read Dr Gidman's business card in another column.
 Miss Julia Cardot, of Norfolk, is visiting friends in town.
 The old-fashioned winter is followed by a new-fashioned spring.
 Spring poetry is showed under as we'll as the poetry of spring.
 MT George F. Dunning of Farming ton visited friends in town over Sunday. Rev Dr Eddy will preach in !,llage Improvement hall next Sunday, at 10.30 6. m.
 -"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune"
 Likewise in church affairs. Benjamin P. Dole of Hatfield, Mass, is the new clerk of the Warner House in place of N. P. Loomis, resigned.
 Fred G. Capron returned last week to his old position in the printing office of B. St John & Co.,. at Millerton. Rev MT Stone of Bethlehem, Conn.,, preached an excellent sermon in the Congregational church last Sunday.
 Potato bugs will turn purple with rage on reading Hemingway's London Purple Co.'S adv. in another column.
 The young ladies mission circle will hold sociable at Rev Dr Eddy's this Wednesday evening All are invited to attend.
 On the p. m. Housatonic freight train north, Saturday. there was 8 car from the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe road. Bessie Waller, the four-year-old daughter of William Waller, is dang er- ously ill, at this writing, Tuesday after noon.
 Preserve this issue of the NEWS con- taining the conference appointments; you will doubtless wish to refer to it many times in future.
 About ten inches of snow fell here Monday and made good sleiehing until Tuesday noon, when "Old Sol" got in his work and whipped it.
 The original Warner House. instead of the Cummings block, is receiving new coat of paint. Opposite sides of the street present quite contrast.
 An oyster supper for the benefit of the organ fund of Christ church will be given tomorrow (Thursday) evening at D. D. Walters. All are cordially invit- ed to attend.
 s'Sohmer" & Mathushek Pianos, Estey and Mason S Hamlin Organs rented or for sale by Cspewell the Jeweler, No. 3s6 Main street, West Winsted, Conn.
 70. NJ. Halls grand millinery open ing takes place tomorrow. Rain or shine, snow or mud, will not prevent the ladies from attending who have waited for this event of the season. See advertisement.
 And still they come-iron giants for the Housatonic road. Friday after noon the new and gigantic freight loco- motive, No. 25, made its appearance on the line and easily hauled forty loaded cars from Falls Village to Canaan.
 Friday, April g, is the date of the Methodist society's excursion from Ca naan, East Canaan and Norfolk to Hart ford and return. Fare only SIPS for the round trip. Tickets for sale at the above mentioned stations, also on the train leaving Canaan at $40 a. m.
 -S. W. Barnes and family returned from the "Sunny South Monday even. ing. They arrived during the snow storm and found the snow nearly 6 foot deep here, which was quite con, trast to the climate and scenery they have been enjoying the past two months or more.
 It IS said that Builder Lorraine has received the contract from William H Barnum, president of the Housatonit railroad, to construct large hotel fol summer boarders at the Berkshire sods springs, near Great Harrington, where { hotel was burned few years ago. Very nlce bath houses were built there las fall.
 We call the especial attention of in vestors to the advertisement of tht Charlottesville, Ind, Water Works Go, twenty-year gold sizes. offered by Messr' Coffin & Stanton, and Frank A. Peet The securities offered by these gentle men are quickly taken; the block o Shelbyville Water Co.'S bonds whicl they offered three weeks ago were sool purchased we understand.
 -Dr Gidman Is 8 graduate of tn Hahnemann medical college and hos pital of Chicago, Ill. His diploma also endorsed as genuine by the Ne, York Homeopathic medical college according to the requirements of til laws within said state. He is also member of the Connecticut State He ,n~epa*hio medical sooasty. <